Paul O’Rorke

Michael Driscoll and Jim Porzak organized an excellent panel on “Case Studies in R” at Predictive Analytics World at the Hotel Nikko on Mason Street in San Francisco, February 18th, 2009.  Actually, they couldn’t resist having fun yet again with the name “R” and the actual  title was “The R and Science of Predictive Analytics:  Four Case Studies in R.”  Jim and Mike organize the Bay Area useR Group and this meeting was their 2009 kickoff.  Driscoll is a Principal in a Business Analytics startup called Dataspora.  Michael chaired the session and Jim, now at The Generations Network, gave a quick overview of R and served as one of the four panelists.  The other three panelists were:  Bo Cowgill from Google, Itamar Rosenn from Facebook, and David Smith from Revolution Computing. (continue reading…)